The Arran Convict - Battlefield Band Chords
Chords: G, C, D7, D
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Genre: celtic, folk, world
[Chorus]
G C G D7
I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary
C G D7
Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning
G C G
But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison
D7 C
The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream
G D G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning
[Verse 1]
D7
It seems just like yesterday sailing from Brodick
G D7
Across the Atlantic in search of a wife and some land
D7
But the New Brunswick winters are lonely and hard
G D7
So I followed the wagons out west with no money or plan
[Chorus]
G C G D7
I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary
C G D7
Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning
G C G
But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison
D7 C
The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream
G D G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning
[Verse 2]
D7
I've worked on the railroad with Chinese and Irish
G D7
Slept in the pinewoods and heard the wolves screech in the dawn
D7
But a Scotsman in Portland took all of my money
G D7
He sold me a cartload of candles he robbed from a store
[Chorus]
G C G D7
I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary
C G D7
Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning
G C G
But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison
D7 C
The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream
G D G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning
[Verse 3]
D7
And I fell in with gangsters and dealers in moonshine
G D7
And soon they involved me in driving their wagons of booze
D7
One night we were ambushed and I killed a black man
G D7
Now I'm in the jailhouse in one of the hard labour crews
[Chorus]
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